Dysfunctional state.
I think Iran functions pretty much as its leaders want it to function.
Like Zimbabwe.
No. Iran doesn’t suffer from hyperinflation or famine, to name just two basic differences.
Stop strawmanning. Your usual tactic.
Poor Hakan has it tough at the minute
I read that earlier. Was he injured at Blackburn or why did he play so few games?
Think he joined in January and left that summer
He had it all: record goalscorer for Galatasaray and his country, huge respect even from fans of the other Turkish giants, Fenerbahce and Besiktas. He even played nine times for Blackburn Rovers in the 2002-03 season, scoring twice.
“Even” played for Blackburn 
Probably the lowest point in the mans career FFS. He played for Galatasary when they were a genuine European power winning the UEFA cup with them in 99-00. He then played for Inter Milan and Parma for a few years, before he did a 6 month stint at Blackburn. A footnote in his career. Not a “even” moment.
Trump has stuffed the Turks. Stuffed them good and proper
Hon Trump.
Turkish Lira down 16% vs the Dollar is a fair cut.
Erdogan is playing the senior hurling now.
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It’s down 30% since the beginning of August. If this isn’t sorted shortly they will have a debt crisis and need a bailout.
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Erdogan is more or less a dictator anyway. Be no harm to see him go. Strange how this is after happening all of a sudden.
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Merkel ist gegen zusammenarbeit
Erdoğan is a dubious sort tbh.
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He’s an awful bollox. He’s trying to bring turkey back to the dark ages. Trump is dead right on this one even if his reasoning is dubious enough.
Leaves a big gap for Russia & China now with Turkey and Iran looking for friends.
The auld Kurds might even have a shot a country if this keeps going. The Turks would lose their shit altogether then
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The Turks hate the kurds like limerick hate Clare. Even the secular ones. They’d go nuts if the kurds ever got a country.
Erogan is indeed a fucking nut job. Purging the population of dissenters and fucking with the shit of anyone who they might consider undesirable or dangerous. Mrs J’s sister married a Turkish fella and lives there for the last 15 years. Even though she’s a long term resident, married to a turk and runs a business there she has recently started to have trouble getting visas in and out.
There was a coup on the road from Carlisle and Wigton a few weeks ago. Barely mentioned in the news.